GIRLS SOCCER: Waynesboro routs Biglerville 10-0

Despite a raw 45-degree temperature, the Waynesboro Maiden soccer team heated things up on the field with a 10-0 drubbing of the Biglerville Canners in a non-conference contest Monday afternoon with rain falling throughout.

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Posted Oct. 9, 2012 at 9:03 AM
Updated Oct 9, 2012 at 9:07 AM

Posted Oct. 9, 2012 at 9:03 AM
Updated Oct 9, 2012 at 9:07 AM

WAYNESBORO —Despite a raw 45-degree temperature, the Waynesboro Maiden soccer team heated things up on the field with a 10-0 drubbing of the Biglerville Canners in a non-conference contest Monday afternoon with rain falling throughout.

Alysha McCleaf powered Waynesboro (11-3) with three goals to raise her total to 20 for the season.

Jade Swope collected two goals to up her total to 15 and she came close to scoring a handful of times by slamming shots off the crossbar, post and had a rising shot caught high by Canner goalkeeper Rebecca Martin.

Assists went to Patterson with two, Churchman, McCleaf and Lauren Wagaman.

Still, it was a bit of a sluggish first half for the Maidens, according to coach Brian Fisher.

“I thought the first half was a little inconsistent,” he said. “ The second half we came out and had three quick goals. That was awesome.

“We challenged them to step up and dominate the other team like we should have in the first half. We have a problem putting teams away. Today was probably the first time we did that all year. I was happy to see that.”

The Maidens dominated play from the start of the game and had the Canners, who started six ninth-graders, backed into the defensive end of the field for long stretches.

The only thing that seemed to slow the Maidens was an inordinate number of offside calls — at least seven in the first half.

But the Maidens applied continued pressure with the work of McCleaf, Swope, Patterson, Chandler, Clawson and Churchman leading the way.

McCleaf netted the first goal after 7:23 as she gathered in a pass from Patterson and hit a 12-yard shot that hit the right post and spun into the net.

At 18:55, McCleaf picked up her second score as she received a pass from Clawson on the right and placed the ball into the net near the right post.

Clawson closed out the scoring in the first half in the closing 43 seconds. Churchman sent the ball in from the left and it got past the Biglerville keeper, finding Clawson just a couple of feet from the cage. She tapped it home for a 3-0 lead.

Waynesboro keeper Nicole Kreimer wasn’t very busy, but had a couple of nice plays in the opening half.

First, she leaped high to knock away a shot by Biglerville’s Olivia Moore and then pounced on the ball just ahead of the Canner charge.

Near the end of the half, Kreimer fell on the ball while squeezed by Canners Moore and Karina Padilla near the edge of the penalty box.

Page 2 of 2 - Waynesboro poured it on in the second half with seven goals, three of them in less than three minutes.

The barrage started at 7:07 with a hit by Swope off a Churchman free kick. The ball hit the ground among a cluster of players close to the cage and Swope connected.

At 8:11, Churchman punched in a short shot into the lower left corner.

McCleaf then scored at 9:35 on a 12-yarder as she received a pass from Patterson to give Waynesboro a 6-0 advantage.

Chandler claimed her goal at 19:19 and Nichols, who moved up from the back, sailed a long shot into the upper left corner at 25:00 that upped the Maiden lead to 8-0.

The scoring concluded with a nice outside shot into the upper portion of the net by Swope at 32:12 and Patterson, with 3:15 left, on a kind of reverse hit from 18 yards that got over the goalie and into the right corner.

“Everyone contributed,” Fisher noted. “We got to see different people in different positions. It was a fun win. We got the opportunity to rest some people today because we have four games this week.”

Waynesboro outshot Biglerville 29-3 and had a 4-1 advantage in corner kicks.

Martin had 19 goalie saves and 25 stops for the Canners, while Maiden keepers Kreimer and Taylor Welty had three and five, and none and three, respectively.

Waynesboro goes on the road to play James Buchanan today as part of a boys-girls varsity showdown. The junior varsity teams will play in Waynesboro on Wednesday.